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George of Mytilene
SaintResearchedPre-congregation
Feast: 7 April (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Born
776
Died
821
Beatified
—
not needed: before formal processes
Canonised
By tradition
recognised before formal processes began
Who they were
At Mytilene on the island of Lesbos, Saint George, bishop, who suffered much under the emperor Leo the Armenian for the veneration of sacred images.
The miracles
There was never a formal cause: he has been honoured as a saint since before the Church's formal processes began.
Why that counted as sanctity
The Roman Martyrology remembers him on 7 April as a bishop of Mytilene who suffered under Leo the Armenian for the veneration of sacred images.
Sources
- Roman Martyrology, 7 April (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q9396830 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.